Raised Fist Radio – 6.5.14 – Boots Riley

Raised Fist Radio – 6.5.14 – Boots Riley

Boots

Raised Fist Radio is a political talk show focused on activism and social justice issues in the Los Angeles area hosted by Nick McNamara. On this episode, Nick features an interview with activist and MC Boots Riley from the group The Coup. Boots discussed his beginnings in activism, the panel he took part in at CSUN called Hip Hop in the Age of Mass Incarceration and Deportations and more.

Be aware there is some explicit language used by Boots in the interview, so viewer discretion is advised.

Raised Fist Radio – 9.18.13 – Chuck O’Connell

Raised Fist Radio – 9.18.13 – Chuck O’Connell

Raised Fist Radio is a political talk show focused on activism and social justice issues in the Los Angeles area. Host and Co-Program Director Nick McNamara welcomed guest Chuck O’Connell, a former professor of sociology at Pierce, to talk about his beginnings into political thought, the state of the labor movement today as well as US imperialism in the Middle East.RFR1

Raised Fist Radio – 9.18.13 – Chuck O’Connell

[Listen] Raised Fist Radio- 11/1/12- Youth Justice Coalition

[Listen] Raised Fist Radio- 10/4/12- S.O.S.

This week, members of the student group Students Organizing for Success, or S.O.S., came on the program. We discussed some current news as well as the recent presidential debate. We talked about how they first got into politics and activism, and the influence James McKeever, professor of Sociology, has had on them. We discussed our political ideologies, as well as common misconceptions.